Hermocrates () of Phocaea was a philosopher of ancient Greece, who lived in the 2nd century CE. He came from a renowned lineage of philosophers, being the grandson of the sophist Attalus and great-grandson of Polemon of Laodicea. He studied under Claudius Rufinus Sophistes of Smyrna. His parents were the otherwise unknown Rufianus and Callisto. He married a daughter of Antipater.
Hermocrates died at the age of twenty-five, or twenty-eight, according to other accounts. The writer Philostratus pronounces him one of the most distinguished rhetoricians of his age.Philostratus, Lives of the Sophists 2.25Johann Albert Fabricius Bibliotheca Graeca vol. vi. p. 131
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